Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 438 Others come to learn, he comes to teach
Chen Ying seldom visits the four cubs, but their keepers often send him photos and short videos, and there are also short videos of the four cubs’ daily life on the official account.

Compared to the chubby fourth cub, its older brothers and sisters have grown taller now, with the same gas tank but a sportier look.

The third cub is obviously smaller than the eldest and second oldest, and is more clingy, very much like Jin Ya.

Especially when she starts to act coquettishly, few people can resist her.

Every time Chen Ying went over, she had to kiss it, hug it and lift it up high first, otherwise there would definitely be several holes left on her trouser legs.

But not everyone can get close to the Third Girl. Apart from Chen Ying, only Yin Li can touch her. Sun Qihai takes good care of her and observes her every day. The greatest gift he can give her is to let him touch her tail, but not for more than three seconds, otherwise the Third Girl will instantly turn into the Third Aunt.

The eldest and second cubs are already learning how to hunt from the big snow leopard and the yellow-haired one. The third girl mainly follows the little snow leopard. The big leopards, including Aunt Lynx, do not allow her to learn her mother's methods.

Looking at her mother's clear and innocent big eyes, the third girl seemed to understand something. After that, she often hunted to fill her stomach, and after that she would remember to bring some snacks back to feed her mother.

After Erniu gave birth to her first child, she began a happy life of being fed by her child.

After returning from the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Jin Ya and Xiao Jin would disappear for a few days from time to time. Since they were all wild animals, Chen Ying didn't care. But they would be leaving in a month, so Chen Ying decided to talk to Jin Ya about the problem of the little lynx.

If it is willing, it can raise the little lynx here until it can live on its own, but this time may be longer than for a normal little lynx, because although its eyes have recovered, they are still a little less agile than other lynxes.

Originally, Chen Ying wanted to suggest sending the little lynx to Qingye, but after contacting the breeder and veterinarian there, after learning that the little lynx was still able to hunt, they all suggested letting it live in the wild.

It is good to listen to the advice of other experts in this regard. The original purpose of rescue is to allow them to eventually return to the wild and live freely, rather than locking them up under the banner of doing it for their own good.

The keepers of the four cubs have also been contacting Sun Qihai frequently recently. The two of them want to try to see if they can get the four cubs back into the wild.

It was weak when it was born, but after several months of artificial breeding, its physical fitness has reached the average passing line. If it can hunt on its own, it should be able to return to the wild.

The conditions in the no-man's land are very poor, and the keeper couldn't bear to see the cubs suffer, so he sent them to Qingye's own field training ground, where there were other rescued snow leopards. The four cubs could learn survival skills from the adult snow leopards.

Wishes are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

The four cubs that were raised artificially were already accustomed to being fed on time and had no desire to hunt at all. When a small rabbit was put in for them to practice with, they thought it was a toy and played with it for most of the day. In the end, the rabbit was scared to death.

The four rabbit cubs refused to eat the dead rabbit and took it to the breeder, hoping that he would revive the rabbit and continue to play with it.

Plan step one, failed×
One failure did not make Sun Qihai and the breeder give up, and they set their sights on Erniu.

Erniu didn’t take the fourth cub with her before because she knew that the four cubs with weak bodies would not be able to survive in the wild.

But now the fourth cub has grown up and only needs to accept skill teaching from his mother. Maybe Erniu can change her mind?
They found Chen Ying and described the plan.

Chen Ying felt that it was a bit difficult, but she could give it a try. First, she had to get Erniu and the big snow leopard to come over and recognize them as her relatives. Otherwise, she had to find a good snow leopard willing to help take care of the cubs for free.

Apart from giving Erniu a heads up in advance, Chen Ying did not participate much in this matter. After all, Sun Qihai was researching this and he couldn't be relied upon to solve everything.

I discussed the issue of the little lynx's education with Jin Ya. It is planned to stay until summer. If it cannot feed itself in that season with abundant food, it would be better to take it back to Jiamugou. After all, there are many uncles and aunts there, so there will be no worries about feeding a poor little thing.

Xiao Jin has a slightly different idea from Jin Ya.

When it heard that Chen Ying was going to the Grand Canyon, a place with many similar people, Xiao Jin wanted to go with him to take a look.

Some time ago, they ran to Sanjiang. The territories they used to roam in have changed owners. Unlike Jiamugou, their territory is fixed and rarely changes in at least two or three years.

Uninhabited wastelands are indeed not suitable for the golden cat to survive, but in the mountainous and canyon areas of the plateau, golden cats are not uncommon.

Chen Ying had never learned much about the Grand Canyon before. She only knew that it was the world's largest canyon in terms of depth and width, and was also known as a "natural museum" and "biological gene bank" for its rich scientific content and valuable resources.
The Grand Canyon is located in the southeastern part of the Snow Region and spans three counties.

It starts from Pai Township (3000 meters above sea level) in the north, flows northeast between Mount Namjagbarwa and Mount Galabailei, enters Saishangjiangnan, bypasses Mount Namjagbarwa on the south side, turns southeast in a horseshoe shape, and then goes straight south to Bashika (115 meters above sea level) and exits the country.

The Grand Canyon has become a place that many researchers around the world yearn for because of its unique and complete vertical spectrum, which covers vegetation types such as tropical monsoon forests, subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests, cold temperate coniferous forests, alpine shrubs, and alpine meadows.

Here, the forest protection work is not like that in Jiamugou or the no-man's land. It is more the residents along the coast who act as forest rangers.

Their main task is to plant trees and maintain grasslands.

In the past, due to overgrazing, the grasslands on both sides of the canyon were overloaded and severely desertified, with sandstorms even so strong that they blocked the roads.

The policy of returning pasture to grassland and planting trees over the past decade has made both sides of the river green again. In order to protect the fragile grassland ecology, herders gave up grazing here and added fences to reduce the number of people coming in and out.

Gradually, the protected grasslands and woodlands have become a paradise for wildlife in the Grand Canyon area.

The best time to enter the Grand Canyon is in August, September and March, when the rainy season has just ended and the mountains have not yet been closed by heavy snow. The climatic conditions and harmful organisms are also relatively less severe. The unique horse caravans in the Grand Canyon, in particular, can give hikers a sufficient sense of security.

However, Yin Li and his group were going to study in Saishang Jiangnan, so they didn't need to go deep into the Grand Canyon. Chen Ying naturally wouldn't think about hiking across the Grand Canyon or anything like that. At most, he would just take a walk in the surrounding mountains.

The living conditions are okay, basically two people in a room, all the canteens are open for accommodation, and there are also restaurants, noodle shops and convenience stores in the small county town outside.

This time they drove over and brought Xiao Jin, as well as the two puppies, Red Lion and Black Gold.

The animals were riding in Chen Ying's car, which had special cages for them to rest.

Chen Ying and Yin Li took turns driving, and it took them nearly thirty hours to reach the destination, traveling more than a thousand kilometers.

They came early and rested in the city for a day before reporting to the guesthouse.

Xiao Jin and the two mastiff puppies had reported in advance, and the institute had arranged living quarters for the animals.

Xiao Jin's arrival attracted the attention of people who came to study, but everyone was very conscious and did not harass it too much.

After coming here, Xiao Jin is in much better condition than when he was in Heyuan. The altitude here is much lower, the climate is warmer and more humid, and Xiao Jin's hair is visibly smoother.

After staying in the cage for a night, Xiao Jin couldn't wait to go out and explore the surroundings.

The guesthouse is affiliated with the research station and is surrounded by forests. There are basically no tourists here, so there is no need to worry too much about Xiao Jin's safety.

On the contrary, the siblings, Hongshi and Heijin, were a little uncomfortable with the new environment and were inseparable from Chen Ying every day.

On the first day here, Chen Ying helped the institute perform hind limb surgery on a rescued monkey.

This little monkey was born with a problem with his hip joint and is prone to hip dislocation.

Once this happens, the baby monkey's lower limbs cannot move, and it cannot live in the tree at all, and it cannot even hold on to its mother's body.

When the villagers picked it up from the ground, the little monkey had been away from its mother for who knows how long and was already dying.

"This disease is very troublesome. For the monkey, it has basically declared that it can never return to the forest. Even in an artificial breeding environment, it may be dislocated again due to an unintentional collision or a long-distance jump. You can take a look at this CT scan. The acetabular dysplasia here is the root cause of this disease."

Chen Ying gave classes to veterinarians and also taught them the key points of new technologies such as artificial reduction and subsequent consolidation treatment, as well as acetabular reconstruction.

Normally, veterinarians are not required to master acetabular reconstruction, which is the specialty of orthopedic surgeons. But even if they can't, they still need to know what it is.

Especially for primates such as monkeys and apes, the orthopedic diseases they may suffer from are similar to those of humans. Only after the veterinarian makes a clear judgment can we find experts in the corresponding field to confirm the diagnosis.

While Yin Li and his colleagues were receiving training, Chen Ying was providing professional training to veterinarians at the institute and nearby rescue centers.

The class lasted about four days. After completing one stage, Chen Ying’s class would give the “students” some time to fully comprehend the lesson before they could master more skills.

For the remaining time, Chen Ying wanted to go to the nearby mountains to take a look. Xiao Jin had been out for a few days and had not returned yet, so he was a little worried.

Although he put a collar on Xiao Jin when he went out, the signals received so far are normal, and its activity range is within five kilometers around the research institute.

But since last night, Xiao Jin has been staying in one place without moving.

The researcher in charge of monitoring the signal did not dare to wait any longer and found Chen Ying early in the morning to report the situation.

"I'll go find it, you guys go do your thing."

"Teacher Chen, let me go with you. We are also going out to retrieve the camera and will pass by this area. Half a year ago, the camera set up here captured a reddish-brown golden cat moving around. Did Xiao Jin run into that golden cat?"

This is not the estrus season for golden cats, so the two cats are likely to fight when they meet. At present, we don’t know if the collar was removed because of the fight, so we must go and take a look to be sure.

(End of this chapter)